Improved machine for making horseshoes



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W! WALLICK.

Horseshoe .M achine. Nd. 54,452. Patented May 1, 1866.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' WASHINGTON WALLIOK, OF PHILA DELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA IMPROVED MACHINE FORMAKING HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,452, dated May 1,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WASHINGTON WALLIOK, of the city of Philadelphia, andState of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inMachinery for Making Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 represents a top view of my improved machine; Fig. 2, anelevation; Fig. 3, a transverse section on the line X Y of Fig. 2; Fig.4., a detached view of the parts hereinafter described.

A B O D, Fig. 1, is a strong iron bed-plate, say, one and one-half inchthick.

E F are two powerful uprights, having two bearings on top which supportthejournals or fulcra on which the main lever G G H vibrates. This leveris made very stout, and curved, as shown in the drawings, and should beabout thirty inches long. To the outer extremity of this lever H an arm,9, is attached, which connects with a crank on the main shaft L L. Tothis lever is attached the cutting and. bending die M. This die, in itslower or inner fall, is curved to correspond with the shape of thehorseshoe desired to be formed, as is shown at m, Fig. 3. At one side acutter, N, is attached.

0 is a former, shaped like a horseshoe, against which the curved die Mpresses the non.

P and P are two vibrating jaws, which approach and compress the heatediron against the sides of the former 0. They are made to operate by twosliding pieces, Q Q, acted on by cams on the main shaft. These slidingpieces Q Q terminate in wedges at theirouter extremity, and then beingslid forward, drive the two jaws P and P together. When thesewedge-pieces Q Q recede a reacting spring forces the two jaws P and Papart.

A sliding creaser, lt, Fig. 2, is slid backward and forward by aneccentric, V, on the main shaft. When it is pushed forward it creasesand marks the shoe and then recedes.

After the shoe has been formed it is projected from the die or former inthe following manner: To the rear end of the lever G G H a shortvibrating arm, S, and connecting-piece Sare attached. Srests againstarod, t,which rod t presses against the shoe-shaped bed-plate Z Z,against which the shoe is pressed by B. As the lever G G H ascends infront after forming the shoe, the arm S descends, and S presses the rodt forward, which presses the shoe free from the former 0 and then itdrops. When S has reached the end of its stroke and liberated the shoe asmall incline, U, forces it to rise and detach itself from the rod, whena concealed spring forces back the rod 15 to its first place, restoringthe bed Z Z around and behind the former O to'its original positionalso.

The operation of the machine is as follows:

The heated iron, in bars, is fed in below the die M, the die M cuts andforms the shoe around the former O, and the vibrating jaws P P approachand compress thesidesot'thc shoe to the former O. The creaser R thenslides forward and presses it against Z Z and creases the shoe, andpunches it also, if desired. The lever G G H then ascends, the jaws P Pseparate, the creaser It recedes, the piece S descends, forces S against25, and this pushes the shoe just formed free from the former O, and bythe action of the spring the shoe-shaped bed-plate Z Z returns to itsoriginal place for the next operation.

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim as my invention, anddesire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of thelever G G H and the bending and cutting die M,constructed and operating as described.

2. The jaws P and P and the former O, for compressing the sides of theshoe, constructed and operated as described.

3. The creaser and presser It, in combination with the die M, the jaws Pand P, and the former O.

4. The mechanism for discharging the shoe, consisting of the-lever G GH, the pieces S, S

and t, and the reacting spring, arranged and operating as described.

' WASH. WALLIOK.

Witnesses:

J. E. SHAW,

GEO. BUGKLEY.

